The Justice Department and Department of Education have announced a joint finding that UC Berkeley School of Law discriminated on the basis of race in its admissions process, marking a significant federal civil-rights enforcement action in the post-Students for Fair Admissions landscape. Although the announcement is not a final court judgment, it signals how aggressively federal agencies may scrutinize…
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The Federal Trade Commission said it and five states have notified the court that they intend to file a stipulated order to resolve antitrust litigation against Zillow and Redfin, marking a potentially important development in platform-market enforcement. While the FTC’s announcement did not detail the states involved or the full terms of the proposed resolution, the agency said the settlement…
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A new proposed consumer class action in the District of Nevada puts Vitauthority LLC’s supplement marketing under scrutiny. In Mathieson v. Vitauthority LLC, No. 2:26-cv-02828, the plaintiff challenges how the company allegedly marketed and sold certain products, teeing up the kind of labeling and advertising dispute that continues to drive class action filings in the health-and-wellness space.

Although the…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s September 9, 2026 scheduling order in PGR2026-00033 does not resolve the merits of the post-grant review, but it is still an important procedural ruling for parties practicing before the Board. As is often the case in AIA trials, the order establishes the framework that will control the pace of the case, the parties’ briefing…
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The Justice Department’s September 11 announcements stood out for pairing a rare national-security procedural development with high-stakes criminal enforcement news: DOJ said it has made the first use of the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court, while also publicizing new sentencing and guilty-plea developments in major fraud and child-exploitation matters.

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The Justice Department has launched what it describes as its final wave of lawsuits challenging state and local laws that allow undocumented students to access in-state tuition and related higher-education benefits. The new suits target Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah, and the District of Columbia, extending a litigation campaign with potentially significant consequences for immigration policy, public university systems, and the balance…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dealt a notable setback to the Trump administration by blocking an effort to keep a Michigan coal-fired power plant operating under claimed emergency authority. In siding with a coalition of states and environmental groups, the court concluded there was no genuine emergency sufficient to justify extraordinary federal intervention.

At a high…
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